Hollywoodland Cert 15, 125mins SOPRANOS veteran Allen Coulter ought to be able to make a good thriller for the big screen. But his first feature, about the mysterious death in 1959 of George Reeves, TV's Superman, is not so much a thriller as...

Now that Warner Bros.' "Superman Returns" has flown around most of the world, the question is: What was the factor that proved Kryptonite to weaken the superhero's results? Was it the studio's marketing campaign? A character too steeped in Americana, at a...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s just Ben Affleck in a lumpy blue Superman costume from studio wardrobe. O.K., the image is silly and appetite-curbing, even in color, but in Hollywoodland, a fascinating, intelligent and probing new film noir about the unsolved Tinseltown...

Passing through southern Illinois on their way to Nashville, Diana Brown and her son Colin saw the signs pointing the way to this town's Superman Square and its colorful bronze statue of the Man of Steel. Thanks to...

The original Superman, directed by Richard Donner, was one of the most disjointed, stylistically mixed-up movies ever made. The mystico-sublime rubbed elbows with low farce and pop irony, and everything gave way to disaster-movie squareness in the end. But now all is well. Richard Lester, of Beatles-movie fame, took over the direction of Superman II, and Lester has brought unity and a high style to the material. The fantasy and playfulness that Lester has always striven for fall to him easily this time, and...